Peace In Our Time (Joseph Farah Slams The New York Times' Call For A Middle East "Munich" Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 08/08/06 | Joseph Farah

[goldstategop]

Imagine it's 1939 all over again.

Imagine we haven't learned the tragic lessons of appeasement.

Imagine there are still people in the world – in powerful and influential positions – who believe that you can build lasting peace with evil forces upon foundations of paper.

You don't have to imagine such a world. It's here. You can see it in the U.S. State Department's eagerness for a cease-fire in Lebanon. You can hear it in the cries for same from the four corners of the world. And you can read it for yourself in yesterday's editorial in the New York Times.

I don't normally pay all that much attention to the Times any more. But, once in awhile, the editors and management of this institution show their real colors so obviously it is worth pointing out.

The Times is hysterical about the need for an immediate cease-fire.

"Diplomats still dither over cease-fire details," the editorial said. "Innocent people still keep dying."

The Times editors have it all figured out. If only they would be permitted to mediate between Israel and Hezbollah, they could have this thing worked out by the end of the day.

"Enough," the editors rail. "This is the week that the international community must impose a truce, to be followed, in short order, by a political settlement and the dispatch of a robust international force to patrol Lebanon's oft-violated border with Israel."

I wonder if any Times editors will volunteer to be a part of that international force? Are they aware a U.N. force has been on the ground for years – including during the period Hezbollah launched its attacks on Israel? Are they aware the only thing they have accomplished is to become part of the collateral casualties?

What is the key to "the Times peace plan for Lebanon"?

It turns out the international military force should be comprised of soldiers from France, Italy, Turkey and Australia. But, the paper acknowledges, none of these countries will "want to send soldiers if either Israel or Hezbollah is going to keep shooting."

So, really, this isn't a military force at all. It's at best a show force. But everyone knows going in that these guys will run the other way at the first threat of violence. How in the world is that supposed to solve any of the problems in Lebanon?

The Times editors know. It's called deceit.

Knowing full well that the international force won't have any more potency than the U.N. force currently in place in southern Lebanon, the Times editors explain that the political settlement is the key to maintaining peace. And that political settlement needs to be imposed on the parties in a way that allows the terrorists to save face – and even claim victory!

"Therefore the political settlement has to be packaged so that both sides can claim some sort of victory," is the way the Times editors explain their plan.

Isn't that exactly what Neville Chamberlain had hoped to achieve in his peace treaty with Adolf Hitler?

Someone needs to remind all those clamoring for a cease-fire that Hezbollah is still sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state and all of the Jewish inhabitants of that state.

Someone needs to remind all those clamoring for a cease-fire that Hezbollah is doing the bidding of its sponsors in Iran who look at Israel as an arm of the real enemy – the United States of America, also known as "the Great Satan."

Some needs to remind all those clamoring for a cease-fire that lasting peace only comes when hateful aggressors are soundly defeated by peace-loving, freedom-loving people.

[goldstategop]

The wages of appeasement and French surrender are hover upon Israel and America for the umpteenth time. Yesterday, the New York Times in an editorial screamed for a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel. The Left gone apesh*t over the fighting there. It must be put to an end urgently - before Israel does win. What's the real reason behind saving Hezbollah? Its make America suffer a defeat. If Hezbollah wasn't a declared enemy of America as well as of Israel - neither the Left, nor the Eurotrash at the UN would be running to save it from oblivion. Hezbollah is basically the Foreign Legion of Iran. There are those so blind and dumb as will not see. We do not need "peace in our time" or the resurrection of the diktat at Munich again.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[MarkL]

I've often wondered just how the hell the world let things progress in 1930s Germany to the point where Hitler was able to build up the military in violation to the Versailles Treaty, then annex the Sudatenland, right up until the blitzkrieg into Poland.

Seeing the UN, Europe, and quite a few here in the US, now I understand. There are so many people who seem to think "if we make a deal with them, everything will be OK." The problem is "they" don't keep their agreements.

It's Chamberlain and "Peace in our time" all over again!

Mark

[MarkL]

I wonder if any Times editors will volunteer to be a part of that international force? Are they aware a U.N. force has been on the ground for years – including during the period Hezbollah launched its attacks on Israel? Are they aware the only thing they have accomplished is to become part of the collateral casualties?

This is the only bright spot of the entire article. The Treason Times becoming "part of the collateral casualties!" As much as I hate the thought of any Americans dying, I am having trouble thinking of editorial board members of the Treason Times as being Americans.

Mark

[dsc]

"the U.S. State Department"

Ah, yes, Satan's favorite catamites.

[verum ago]

my tagline just seemed kinda cute when i first joined free republic, but the further away from that date we get, the more relevant it becomes

[MarkL]

"the U.S. State Department"

Ah, yes, Satan's favorite catamites.

One of the most virrulent anti-American organizations in the world today.

Mark

[goldstategop]

Exactly. The Left here hates Bush and they're employing their minions at the State Department to help impose a ceasefire that won't solve anything precisely because they want to make sure Bush doesn't get any credit should Hezbollah be finished off by Israel. Israel needs to lose in order for Bush to lose. That's why insistence upon a ceasefire is gelling in what passes for "enlightened opinion" in this country and over at the UN. Otherwise, you can bet it would never see the light of day.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[garbageseeker]

The New York Times Hero

[ncountylee]

I wonder if any Times editors will volunteer to be a part of that international force?

Only if they are allowed to uphold the UN tradition of trading candy for the favors of children.

[Pelham]

I've often wondered just how the hell the world let things progress in 1930s Germany to the point where Hitler was able to build up the military in violation to the Versailles Treaty, then annex the Sudatenland, right up until the blitzkrieg into Poland.

The Great Depression made it difficult to raise money to rearm. And the memory of hundreds of thousands of casualties was still fresh in British and French minds. WWI was only 20 years past. They weren't eager for a repeat of that slaughter.

[MarkL]

WWI was only 20 years past. They weren't eager for a repeat of that slaughter.

And I guess that 60 years is long enough to forget the outcome of doing nothing...

Mark

[JennysCool]

This is simply how the world works when the "hippie generation" is in power.

The "Reagan generation" is close behind. God willing, it will make its mark before it's too late.

[beyond the sea]

This is simply how the world works when the "hippie generation" is in power. The "Reagan generation" is close behind. God willing, it will make its mark before it's too late.

This country is still being taken into the dumpster by the Russian Marxists who came here nearly 100 years ago. They are everywhere ....... State Dept., media, entertainment industry, education. Everywhere.

It looks like God is not willing.

[malia]

bump

[JennysCool]

Naw. Governance is a completely generational thing. You give it too much credit. How it works is the generation that turns mid-50s to 60s gets enough cachet that they rule the roost. But by the time they're 70 they're old and quickly gotten out of the way by the next generation moving up. Look into American history with this in mind: the generation in power always tries to convince the whole country that what they believed in their youth is the way to go -- even though it's usually incredibly passe, since the generations that followed them have modified that old stuff many times over. But the old lions will insist that, while they have their chance at power, they'll work it. That's why we have a bunch of socialists and Marxists in power right now, even though the actual world -- or at least the smart part of it -- knows that socialism and Marxism is completely old hat, last-century thinking.

But these cats will keep pushing it until the next generation comes into power, which is actually happening pretty quickly.

[JillValentine]

And the memory of hundreds of thousands of casualties was still fresh in British and French minds. WWI was only 20 years past. They weren't eager for a repeat of that slaughter.

Whenever someone talked about fighting Hitler, the pacifists' response of "Do you want to see that slaughter again?" was just like what happened in George Orwell's book Animal Farm.

In Animal Farm, whenever the animals complained about the pigs' leadership, the pigs always responded with, "Do you want Farmer Jones to come back?" That always shut the animals up, just like the pacifists' rhetoric always shut their opponents up.

In the end, the animals ended up with leaders that were worse than Farmer Jones, and the people of Europe ended up with a war that was worse than WWI.

[JillValentine]

It must be put to an end urgently - before Israel does win.

Just like the Yom Kippur War in 1973. When the Egyptians and Syrians were winning, the UN sat on its ass and did absolutely nothing. But when the Israelis started winning, a need for a cease-fire and international intervention suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The UN was desperate to implement a cease-fire before the Israelis could destroy or force the total surrender of the Egyptian Third Army.

The Secretary-General of the UN at the time, BTW, was a certain war criminal and ex-Nazi named Kurt Waldheim.

[beyond the sea]

Naw. Governance is a completely generational thing.

Pardon me....... but you are dreaming.

[beyond the sea]

That's why we have a bunch of socialists and Marxists in power right now, even though the actual world -- or at least the smart part of it -- knows that socialism and Marxism is completely old hat, last-century thinking. But these cats will keep pushing it until the next generation comes into power, which is actually happening pretty quickly.

....... LOL, more dreaming.

I guess you don't notice these assorted dictators and other communists/socialists/nutballs ganging up together to destroy America. Marxism is growing ........ certainly not "old hat".

[beyond the sea]

Analogies and comparisons to past events certainly can be instructive, but the weapons are much different now. Therefor this situation will take more thought.

I, for one, haven't a clue how all this can be resolved.

Bad times ahead. (jmo)